Blog Topic: Veterinary

Research Veterinary

Franken-Swine: World’s First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplantation

In this blog, we discuss the realities of pig-to-human lung transplantation.

Oct 07, 2025
3 min read
Chloe Fenton, PhD

Research Veterinary

Can Gut Microbiota Predict Successful Racehorses?

In this blog, we discuss a recent paper investigating how the gut microbiota of foals in the first few months of life predicts their athletic performance and risk of disease in later life.

Jul 17, 2025
3 min read
Chloe Fenton, PhD

Research Veterinary

Man’s Stressed Friend: How Human Stress Affects Dogs

In this blog, we discuss a recent paper by Parr-Cortes et al. (2024) which investigates how human stress affects the emotional state of dogs.

Jan 16, 2025
4 min read
Chloe Fenton, PhD

Research Veterinary

Heart to Heart: Could Pig-to-Human Heart Transplants Become a Reality?

In this blog, we discuss the use of genetically engineered pigs for heart xenotransplantation.

Oct 10, 2024
4 min read
Chloe Fenton, PhD

Research Veterinary

Pitch Purrfect: How Do Cats Produce Purring Vocalizations?

In this blog, we discuss a recent paper by Herbst et al. (2023) in which they shine a new light on the mechanisms that drive purring in cats.

May 14, 2024
3 min read
Chloe Fenton, PhD

Research Veterinary

Can Designer Pigs Improve Xenotransplantation?

In this blog, we will discuss recent advances in the development of transplant-ready pig kidneys as a source of lifesaving organs for ESRD patients.

Jan 25, 2024
5 min read
Chloe Fenton, PhD

Guest Blog Veterinary

Puppetry of a Parasite: How Toxoplasma gondii Manipulates its Host

In this blog, we discuss new research from Meyer et al. (2022), suggesting that mild manipulation from T. gondii increases a gray wolf’s risk-taking behaviors, with potentially fatal consequences.

Oct 05, 2023
4 min read
Rowan Cox

Research Veterinary

Go Pig or Go Home: Promising Vaccine Developed Against African Swine Fever

In this blog, we explore the research behind a new potential vaccine against African Swine Fever.

May 30, 2023
3 min read
Chloe Fenton, PhD

Research Veterinary

Feline Good: FMT Reduces Digestive Problems in Cats

In this blog, we discuss the results and clinical implications of this new study investigating the benefits of FMT in cats.

Apr 11, 2023
3 min read
Chloe Fenton, PhD

Research Veterinary

Dogs: Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing?

This blog takes a look at a study by Bergström et al. that examined the DNA from ancient wolves to help answer the origins of dogs from wolf populations.

Dec 06, 2022
5 min read
Bio-Rad

Research Veterinary

Could Genetically-Modified Pigs Be the Future of Xenotransplantation?

This blog discusses xenotransplantation, the groundbreaking experimental procedure, where a man with end stage heart failure received a donor heart from a genetically-modified pig.

Mar 10, 2022
3 min read
Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD

Research Veterinary

Genetically Engineered Pigs to Fight Disease

In this blog, we discuss Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRSS)-resistant pigs and how this could help alleviate the economic burden of porcine disease.

Jan 07, 2022
3 min read
Bio-Rad

Research Veterinary

Macrophages May Explain Tuberculosis Tropism

In this blog, we discuss new research that reveals how M. bovis manipulates bovine, but not human, macrophage defenses to cause disease, and helps explain why tuberculosis bacteria have more luck in separate hosts.

Aug 03, 2021
4 min read
Katie Roberts, PhD

Research Veterinary

Could an Unconventional Vaccine Program Prove a Roaring Success?

This blog highlights the threat that canine distemper virus poses to the Amur tiger and discusses whether vaccinating these tigers could help protect them from extinction.

May 19, 2021
5 min read
Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD

Research Veterinary

Unlocking the Mechanism of a Deadly Infection in Pigs

This blog discusses a paper published in Cell Host and Microbe by Bruggisser et al. (2020) that shows that CD31 is crucial for C. perfringens pathogenesis in pigs.